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Remembering Mira Calix

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Aphex Twin, Autechre, Chantal Francesca Passamonte, Mira Calix, RIP, Warp Records

The groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist was a true Warp Records original

Classical Electronics

ALBUMS: Grace, Gravity and the Sad/Happy of the Strange and Simple

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2022, Bjarni Biering, Charles Ives, Curious Music, John Cage, La Monte Young, Moondog, The Andvaka Suite

Icelandic composer Bjarni Biering engages us with everyday beauty

Electronics Experimental Psychedelics

Submersible Sleep Dealer: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica Turns 10

January 5, 2022April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2011, Dan Lopitan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica, Warp Records

You can tell from the opening seconds that Daniel Lopatin was ushering in a new kind of ambient soundscape with his 2011 masterpiece

Electronics

Melt Your Phace6: Aphex Twin’s Drukqs Turns 20

October 24, 2021April 3, 2022 Ted Miller 1 Comment 2001, 20th Anniversary, Aphex Twin, Blame Game, Chris Rock, Dillinger Escape Plan, Drukqs, Kanye West, Mike Patton, Warp Records

Looking back on the polarizing 2001 double opus of Richard D. James

Electronics Industrial jazz

ALBUMS: Graham Haynes meets Submerged In A Singular Soundclash

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 Michael McKeegan 0 Comments 2021, Aphex Twin, Burning Ambulance, DJ Cam, Echolocation, Graham Haynes, Kurt Gluck, Ohm Resistance, Submerged, Therapy?, Witchman

It’s impressive to find an album as immersive as Echolocation

Electronics Experimental jazz Remembrance

You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Bluescreen, Brian Eno, Fourth World, Jazz, Jon Hassell, RIP

The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84

Art Pop Electronics Experimental Hard Rock Progressive Rock

Robert Fripp At 75

May 15, 2021May 15, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Britney Spears, Daryl Hall, Frippertronics, Genesis, Judas Priest, King Crimson, Metallica, Peter Gabriel, Progressive Rock, Robert Fripp, Toyah, Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lockdown Lunch

From King Crimson to singing Prodigy in his kitchen, the legendary guitarist still keeps us surprised at every turn

Electronic Electronics Indie Rock Pop

Sufjan Stevens: Aural Adventures in Pandemic Pop

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 Don McLeese 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Celebrations, Convocations, Fetch The Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple, Invocations, Lamentations, Meditations, Revelations, Sufjan Stevens, The Ascension

The ever-ambitious album artist reconfigures the five stages of grief for electronic instrumentation

Electronics Hip Hop

Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 2021, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Lyn Collins, Madlib, Madlib Invazion, Otis Jackson Jr, Sound Ancestors, Young Marble Giants

What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance

Art Pop Electronics Experimental Folk Hip Hop Indie Rock

Don Giovanni Records’ Quest To Share Honest Cultural Narratives Forges On

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Bad Moves, Don Giovanni Records, Marissa Paternoster, Modern Hut, Moor Mother, Supercrush, Teenage Halloween

Don Giovanni co-founder Joe Steinhardt on cultivating narrative truth, the label’s plans for 2021 and his new album with Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster

Classical Electronics

ALBUMS: The Reintegration Loops

December 26, 2020December 27, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2020, 9/11, Lamentations, Ltd., Temporary Residence, The Disintegration Loops, William Basinski

On Lamentations, William Basinski again indicts the concept of recorded sound as deathless zombie-like preservation, revealing instead the inherent impermanence of technology’s documentary mediums,